UN-Habitat Climate Change Planning Consultant Jobs in Nairobi - Kenya

UN-Habitat Climate Change Planning Consultant Jobs in Nairobi - Kenya

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

For close to forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a brighter future for villages, towns, and cities of all sizes.

UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning and Design Branch supports countries in developing urban planning methods and promotes urban planning approaches to address urban growth and urban transformation processes in countries with rapid urbanization and where cities face urban challenges.

The Branch consists of three units, including the Climate Change Planning Unit (CCPU). The Climate Change Planning Unit within the Urban Planning and Design Branch of UN-Habitat is leading and coordinating UN-Habitat’s work on Urban Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, implementing several flagship Initiatives:

The Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI), launched in August 2008, supports small- and medium-sized cities in developing countries to address the Climate Challenge, and become more resilient to climate change and embrace low-carbon strategies.

Further projects on (i) Developing and Financing City Climate Action Plans, (ii) Pro-poor planning of Climate Resilience in Marginalized Neighborhoods;

CCPU is also overseeing the mainstreaming of Climate Change, one of UN-Habitat’s four cross cutting topics, into the agency’s normative and operational work.

The Climate Change Planning Consultant is located in the Climate Change Planning Unit and directly report to the Unit Leader. He/she will support some of the Unit’s ongoing projects:

UN-Habitat developed a guide on “Addressing Urban and Human Settlement Issues in National Adaptation Plans, a supplement to the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines on National Adaptation Plan Process” (NAP-HS). At present UN-Habitat is looking for opportunities to support Member States in integrating Human Settlements more strongly into National Adaptation Plans.

Under the Urban Health and Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) Reduction Project, UN-Habitat is co-organizing a “Planning for Climate Action, improved Air Quality and Health in Accra” workshop in Accra, Ghana.

The workshop will take place in May 2019. The workshop report will be developed in June and July 2019.

UN-Habitat is beginning to develop a line of work related to urban air quality management, with much of the work in CCPU.

At present the Unit is working on a paper titled “Working paper: Integrated clean air and climate action planning: case studies in Madrid & Mexico City”, and a publication “Planning for improved air quality in African cities: selected case studies”.

Responsibilities

The consultant will work for key activities as follows: